[Rails] another select_list question - bad bad booleans

[Craig White]

Solved - never mind.

Good lesson learned and anyone else using booleans in postgres

0 and 1 are not what rails derives from tables...TRUE FALSE is what
rails obtains from tables.

Craig

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> using radio buttons for a boolean defies logic as I can't make sense of
> the api
> 
> radio_button_tag(name, value, checked = false, options = {})
> 
> from my example below...
> 
> <%= radio_button_tag('placement', 'accepted' '?' %>
> 
> field is to have either 0 or 1 - display should be "Yes" or "No"
> 
> The pop-up list for Yes or No works fine except that in edit mode, the
> value already exists in the column and all I really need is for it to
> preselect "Yes" or "No" based upon the column contents. The above radio
> button api (with absolutely no examples) doesn't make a lick of sense to
> me.
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:35 +0000, Kevin Olbrich wrote:
> > I know this doesn't answer your question... it's late here, but why are  
> > you using a drop down for a binary choice instead of something like a  
> > check box or radio button?
> > 
> > _Kevin
> > 
> > On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > >I have a select list for a boolean column in postgresql
> > >
> > >in the 'model' ...
> > >  YES_NO = [
> > >    [ "Yes",    "1" ],
> > >    [ "No",     "0" ]
> > >  ].freeze
> > >
> > >in the 'view code' ...
> > >
> > ><%= options = [['Accepted?', '']] + Placement::YES_NO
> > >   select("placement", "accepted", options) %>
> > >
> > >When creating new records, I can select Yes or No and it writes the
> > >proper value to table.
> > >
> > >When I edit existing records, unlike other select list menus which
> > >automatically go to the existing value in the select list, the
> > >'Accepted' list always displays "Accepted?' (the prompt, never the
> > >value) in the pop-up selected list, no doubt because it cannot figure
> > >out the reverse translation of existing column 0's and 1's backwards to
> > >Yes : No logic.
> 
> 
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